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A Step-by-Step Guide to Leveraging Personas to Drive Predictive Account Selection

A Step-by-Step Guide to Leveraging Personas to Drive Predictive Account Selection

50% of B2B brands admit that they don’t have buyer personas in place, according to a survey conducted by B2BMarketing at the end of last year. Considering the success we’ve seen researching and creating buyer personas in order to improve our predictive model, we thought this would be a great topic to delve into.

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Aligning Sales & Marketing: An Interview with Cisco Marketing Director, Jill Kaplan

Aligning Sales & Marketing: An Interview with Cisco Marketing Director, Jill Kaplan

In spring 2016, MRP was fortunate enough to be able to speak with some of the brightest marketing minds in the field of Account-Based Marketing. Our guest, Jill Kaplan is the Director of Marketing at Cisco and helped build the company’s pipeline in the Americas.

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Transform your Outbound Strategy with Help from Predictive Analytics

Transform your Outbound Strategy with Help from Predictive Analytics

Outbound sales and marketing tactics are integral to any type of marketing campaign, but it’s no coincidence that ABM is far and wide considered to be so valuable. Consider this: in a survey by Forrester Research, 86% of marketers attributed their ABM success to predictive marketing. Pinpointing key personas at target companies and then tailoring their content strategy to those personas using predictive data is what gives ABM tactics a big performance boost.

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3 Myths About B2B Direct Mail Marketing Debunked

3 Myths About B2B Direct Mail Marketing Debunked

Thanks to the onset of new-and-now digital marketing channels, today’s B2B marketing strategists have begun shying away from direct mail marketing as their platform of choice. Because it’s a traditional platform in a sea of new and exciting digital marketing media, it gets a bad rap. If you’re forgoing direct mail in your B2B marketing campaign, you could be costing your company valuable leads.

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3 Amazing Benefits of Aligning your Sales & Marketing Teams

3 Amazing Benefits of Aligning your Sales & Marketing Teams

In a marketing landscape that’s focused on quality over quantity when it comes to securing leads, this is not an option: the sales and marketing departments need to be operating in perfect tandem. Endearingly nicknamed “SMarketing,” this workplace harmony offers a lot of benefits, such as syncing the quantifiable goals in each department, fostering communication and accountability, and promoting integration – and that’s just to name a few.

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4 Ways to Motivate B2B Decision Makers with Account Personalization

4 Ways to Motivate B2B Decision Makers with Account Personalization

Creating a custom sales pitch for every account you’re targeting is a practice that may feel daunting in theory. It means sinking more time into fewer prospects, and that seems like a risky trade-off. But there’s evidence to suggest, to strongly suggest, that fewer prospects can deliver more conversions if you leverage customization opportunities.